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Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by smileysteve on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:57PM (#19175087)
But if you get 2% and they charge 2% you're stating their fee is approaching 0.

$0.25 and 2% is much less than the fees for Bitcoin, even cheaper than the ethereum gas.

If you only want to compare to cash, the cost of one bad employee greatly exceeds 2%, then employees needing to transfer money to and from a safe, and the guards and trucks required to transport that money.

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Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by pas on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:57AM (#19178234)
As long as you do cash, you need to handle that anyway. And usually the people who want to pay with a card don't want to pay with cash. So if you don't accept cards at all, you'll likely see fewer sales. So it's probably worth it to have a POS terminal in your shop.
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